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Author: Nathan, Robert
Title: Portrait of Jennie
Place: New York
Publisher: Knopf
Date: 1940
Item # : 168592
Sale Number   327
Lot Number   395
Sale Name    
The Edwin Blair Collection of Beat Literature, plus Modern Literature
Sale Date   03/09/2006
Sale Time   1pm PST
Low Estimate   $ 150
High Estimate   $ 250
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Description:
Peach-colored linen, pictorial jacket. First Edition, First issue.
First issue, with only the 1940 date on the copyright page inked out in black (1939 date visible and untouched); also, page 29, line 5 with "Stuart" and page 171, line 14 with "onght." Basis for the 1948 film starring Joseph Cotten and Jennifer Jones.
Condition:
Tears and creases to jacket edges, rubbing, price clipped; cloth slightly faded; previous owner's signature dated 1939; very good or better; jacket about very good.
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